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Raggedy Ann The Evil Doll

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AnnabelleThe Evil Doll

Every kid wanted a doll or a Barbie doll and maybe the old classic 1915 a Raggedy Ann doll, which is a classic doll for any children. You the parent might even get one for Christmas this year for your child, but never name the doll Annabelle.

A mother purchased an antique Raggedy Ann Doll from a hobby store. The doll was a present for her daughter Donna on her birthday. Donna, at the time, was a student in college, preparing to graduate with her nursing degree and resided in a tiny apartment with her roommate  Angie (a nurse as well). Pleased with the doll Donna placed it on her bed as a decoration and didn’t give it a second thought until a few days later. Within  that time, both Donna and Angie noticed that there appeared to be something very strange and creepy about the doll. The doll apparently moved on its own, relatively unnoticeable movements at first, like a change in position, but as time passed the movement became more noticeable. Like those Chucky movies from the 1990’s, but this story was real and true, and it happened in 1970’s.  I am not making it up. This is a real case.

Donna and Angie would come home to find the doll in a completely different room from which they had left it. Sometimes the doll would be found crossed legged on the couch with its arms folded, other times it was found upright, standing on its feet, leaning against a chair in the dining room. It was one of those WTF the doll was doing staring at her as she dropped the bag of grocery to the floor.

Several times Donna, placing the doll on the couch before leaving for work, would return home to find the doll back in her room on the bed with the door closed. Donna and Angie though someone was pulling a practical joke on her, or being punked in sort of way, even though her apartment was locked with all the security she had. She was baffled and being freaking of why the doll would move and posing in different position.

Apparently, the doll not only moved but could write too. About a month into their experiences, Donna and Angie began to find penciled messages on parchment paper that read “Help Us” and “Help Lou.” The hand writing looked to belong to that of a small child. The creepy part about the messages was not the wording but the way they were written. At the time, Donna had never had  parchment paper or the type of pencil it was using. Where did it come from?

One night Donna came home to find the doll had moved again, this time it was on her bed. Donna had come to find that this was typical of the doll but some how she knew this time it was different. Something wasn’t right. A sense of fear came over her when she inspected the doll and saw what looked like blood drops on the back of its hands and its chest. Seemingly, from no where, a liquidly red substance had appeared on the doll. Scared and desperate Donna and Angie decide it was time to seek expert advice.

Not knowing where to turn they contacted a medium and a séance was held. Donna was then introduced to the spirit of Annabelle Higgins. The medium related the story of Annabelle to both Donna and Angie. Annabelle was a young girl who resided on the property before the apartments were built. She was a young girl of only seven years old when her lifeless body was found in the held upon which the apartment complex now stands. The spirit related to the medium whom she felt comfort with Donna and Angie and wanted to stay with them by moving into the doll. Feeling compassion for Annabelle and her story Donna gave her permission to inhibit the doll and stay. They were soon to find out what Annabelle could do.

Lou was friends with Donna and Angie and had been with them since the day the doll arrived. Lou had never been fond of the doll and on several, occasions warned Donna that it was evil and to get rid it of it. Dolls are creepy. Donna had a compassionate tie to the doll and not giving much credence to Lous’ feelings kept it. Donnas’ decision, it turns out, was a terrible mistake.

Lou awoke one night from a deep sleep and in panic. Once again, he had a reoccurring bad dream.  Only this time somehow, something seemed different. It was as though he was awake but couldn’t move. He looked around the room but couldn’t discern anything out of the ordinary, and then it happened. Looking down toward his feet, he saw the doll, Annabelle. It began to move slowly and glide up his leg, moved over his chest and then stopped. Within seconds, the doll was strangling him. It paralyzed him and he started to gasp for air. Lou at the point of asphyxiation, blacked out. Lou awoke the next morning, certain it wasn’t a dream.  Lou was determined to rid himself of that doll and the spirit that possessed it. Lou, however, would have one more terrifying experience with Annabelle.

Preparing for a road trip the next-day  Lou and Angie were reading over maps alone in her apartment. The apartment seemed eerily quiet. Suddenly, rustling sounds coming from Donnas room aroused fear that someone had possibly broken into the apartment. Lou determined to figure out who or what it was quietly made his way to the bedroom door. He waited for the noises to stop before entering and turning on the light. The room was empty except for Annabelle, whom was tossed on the floor in the corner. Lou scoured the room for forced entry, but nothing was out of place. But as he got close to the doll, he got the distinct impression that somebody was behind him. Spinning around he was quick to realize that nobody else was there. Then in flash he found himself grabbing for his chest, doubled over, cut and bleeding. His shirt was stained with blood and upon opening his shirt there on his chest was what looked to be 7 distinct claw marks. A marked from the demon!

Donna finally was willing to believe the spirit in the house was not that of a young girls but inhuman and demonic in nature. After Lous’ experiences Donna felt it was time to seek real expert advice and contacted an Episcopal priest named Father Hegan. Father Hegan referred their case to Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ed and Lorraine Warren immediately took interest in the case and contacted Donna concerning the doll. TheWarrens, after grueling over the case facts for hours came to the conclusion that the doll itself was not in fact possessed – but haunted. Spirits do not possess  inanimate objects like houses or toys, they posses people. A spirit will attach itself to an object and this is what occurred in the Annabelle case. The spirit moved the doll around and created the illusion of it being alive. Truly, the spirit was not looking to stay attached to the doll, it was looking to posses a human host.

The spirit or in this case an inhuman demonic spirit, was essentially in the infestation stage of the phenomenon. It began  moving the doll around the apartment by means of teleportation to arouse the occupants’ curiosity in hopes that they would make the predictable mistake of bringing a medium into the apartment to communicate with it. Which the girls did. Now able to communicate through the medium, the entity preyed on the girl’s emotional vulnerabilities by pretending to be a rather harmless young girl with which, during the séance, managed to extract permission from  Donna to haunt the apartment. In so far as demonic is a negative spirit, it then set about causing patently negative phenomena to occur; it aroused fear through the weird movements of that doll. It brought about the materialization of disturbing handwritten notes. It left a residue of blood on the doll, and ultimately, it even struck the Lou on the chest, leaving behind claw marks. The next stage of the phenomenon would have been the complete human possession. Had these experiences lasted another 2 or 3 weeks the spirit would have completely possessed if not harmed or killed one or all the occupants in the house.

At the conclusion of the investigation, theWarrensfelt it appropriate to have a recitation of an exorcism blessing by a priest to cleanse the apartment. “The Episcopal blessing of the home is a wordy, seven-page  document that is distinctly positive in nature. Rather than specifically expelling evil entities from the dwelling, the emphasis is instead directed toward filling the home with the power of the positive and of God” (Ed Warren). At Donna’s request, and as a further precaution against the phenomena ever occurring in the home again, the Warrens took the big rag doll along with them when they left.

For the next few days, after the Warrens arrived home, Ed sat the doll in a chair next to his desk. The doll Levitated a number of times in the beginning, then it seemed to fall inert. During the ensuing weeks, however, it began showing up in various rooms of the house. When the Warrens were away and had the doll locked up in the outer office building, they would often return to find it sitting comfortably upstairs in Ed’s easy chair when they opened the main front door. Although the phenomenon was the same as that which had occurred in the apartment neitherLorrainenor Ed was ever physically attacked.

I hope you enjoyed this article and should you ever want to visit the famous Annabelle she can be found at the Warren Occult Museum in Moodus, Connecticut. The museum is run by Lorraine Warren, the famous paranormal investigator, and now frequent guest on the television show “Paranormal State” and “Haunted Collector” on the SyFy channel. Housed in a glass case at the museum you will find Annabelle. Mrs. Warren relates that Annabelle still moves about occasionally and is still known to make growling noises at unsuspecting visitors.

Don Baker’s Rain Man

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A man materializes streams of water out of thin air and defies gravity in front of nine witnesses.

February 24, 1983. The funeral of James Kishaugh. Kishaugh’s grandson, 21-year-old Don Decker ofStroudsburg,Pennsylvania, was granted a furlough from the county jail to attend the funeral. Don was serving a 4- to 12-month sentence for receiving stolen property. But no one at the funeral knew he had a dark secret. Don’s grandfather, the man he pretended to mourn, had physically abused him from the time he was just 7-years-old:

“No other part of the family knew anything about what happened, and it was like good fighting evil. The evil was gone and I was hoping, you know, that everything would change.”

Well, things did change, but not in a way Don Decker could ever have imagined. After the funeral, he decided to spend the night with his friends, Bob and Jeannie Keiffer. And that’s when the unexplained began to happen.  It was at the Keiffer’s home that all the uneasy feelings stirred up at the funeral came back to haunt Don. Suddenly he felt a deep chill. At almost the same time, water began to drip from the living room walls as Don says he fell into a strange, trance-like state.  The Keiffers notified the landlord, Ron Van Why. When Ron arrived, he was just as puzzled by the problem as the Keiffers:

“We’d decided maybe it was the plumbing, but there were no pipes in the front end of the house to leak. There was basically nothing there that the water could have come from.” 
After watching it for a while, I discovered that it wasn’t only coming from the ceiling down. It could come from the wall over or from the floor up. There was no basic direction that it was coming from. It could come from anywhere.”

Ron telephoned his wife, Romayne, and the police. Patrolman Richard Wolbert arrived at the scene:

“At this point he was telling me, ‘I just want you to walk into the house.’ I said ‘I’m not walking into the house unless you explain to me what I’m walking into.’  He says, ‘Trust me, trust me, just walk into the house.’ I walked in the door and he came right in behind me. And I couldn’t get two steps inside the door and I was absolutely pelted.

Officer Wolbert said that not only was it raining inside, but that the water drops defied physics:

“We were standing just inside the front door and met this droplet of water traveling horizontally. It passed between us and just traveled out into the next room.”

John Baujan was another officer at the house that night:

“I literally had a chill going up my spine, made the hair stand up on your neck. That’s how I felt. This was a situation where things were happening that I never, ever dreamed could possibly happen. And there was no way of explaining what was going on.”

At this point, the officers left to report the incident to the police chief. The Keiffers and Don walked across the street for something to eat.  Ron Van Why and his wife remained at the house:

“They left, and everything else left, too. The rain stopped. The house was normal. We were kind of thinking that maybe it was coming from them, and we weren’t sure, at that time which one.”

Pam Scrofano, who owned the restaurant across from the Keiffers’ house, had visited them earlier that day and had seen the rain firsthand. Pam was convinced Don Decker, sitting in her restaurant with the Keiffers, was possessed by an evil spirit:

“You looked at Donny and he was like in a trance. He would look at you, but not knowing you were there. I said to Jeannie, ‘He’s got to be possessed.’  We’re sitting there. Couple of seconds later, there’s water all over the pizzeria, too. I’ve never seen anything like that happen. I went in the cash register, I had a crucifix there, I took it out, put it on him. And the minute I put it on him and it touched his skin, he got burned. There’s no way that anybody could have played a joke like that. This was real. Donny was doing it himself. He was doing it without realizing he was doing it.”

Even Don Decker began to believe that he was somehow responsible. The rain in the restaurant was the last straw:

“That made me more sure that I had something to do with it because it was following me. And it didn’t start raining in the house until I got there. They were living there and nothing ever happened. And that’s when I started realizing that it was me.”

Back at the Keiffers’ house, Romayne, the landlord’s wife, confronted Don, accusing him of somehow causing all the trouble. Don Decker recalled:

“The pots and pans over the stove started rattling. That’s when I got levitated off the floor. I was just like floating. Then it was like a push. It wasn’t like somebody taking their hand and pushing me. It was like feeling it all over your body at once. I’m a big guy, you know, I’ve always been assertive, and that made me felt like a newborn. You know, I’m scared right now just talking about it, really.”

A few hours after the strange incident in the kitchen, Officers Baujan and Wolbert arrived with their chief. Officer Baujan describes what happened:

“When the chief got to the house, he was pelted with water just as Rich and I were. I got the impression that he was put on the spot, maybe a little bit embarrassed, like we expected something out of him that he could answer. There was no way to explain what happened. I think he was put in a position where he might have felt a little uncomfortable.”

The police chief announced that the problem was a plumbing issue and ordered his officers to leave the Keiffer house. Officer Baujan said they were told not to file a report and not to even talk about the incident:
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“Well, he just flat out denied it; it didn’t happen. And he tried to convince me that nothing happened. And he wasn’t going to do that. I saw it. And that’s all there is to it.”

The next day, three officers ignored the orders of the police chief. They went to the Keiffer home to continue their investigation. One of the officers was Bill Davies:

“We’re standing there and I gave Mr. Decker this gold cross to hold. Next thing he says, ‘It’s burning my hands.’ And there’s no explanation for it. When you picked it up, when you grabbed it, it’s not hot-hot, but it’s hot and I held onto it.”

Don also once again levitated off the floor. Lt. John Rundle said he witnessed it:

“All of a sudden, he lifted up off the ground and he flew across the room with the force as though a bus had hit him. There were three claw marks on the side of his neck, which drew blood. I have no answer for it whatsoever. And, I just draw a blank, even today.”

Officer Bill Davies was also at a loss:

“I’ve been a cop 40 years and I’ve never seen anything like this, never. There’s always an explanation when something happens.  If you gotta investigate, you come up with something. This is why it happened. For this case, there is no explanation.”

Finally, on the third night, Ron Van Why asked a preacher to come to the house and try an exorcism. Every Protestant minister and Catholic priest in Stroudsburg had turned Ron down.  Ron Van Why:

“As she started to pray, Donny went into a convulsion. He started to shake. He pulled himself up into like a ball and the longer she prayed, he started to relax, then.”

Romayne Van Why said she felt a change in the house:

“His whole body seemed to quiet completely down, and as you’re standing there watching this, you could feel the house itself seemed to take on a total different feeling.”

Ron Van Why:

“And by the time she got done praying, the water was gone.  And that was the last that we saw any water at the house at all.”

The mysterious rain was gone and Don Decker appeared to return to his old self.  But the change was only temporary. After his furlough, Don returned to jail. Within a few days, the mysterious rain returned, this time, in the jail:

“They put me in a maximum security cell. I was in there with another inmate. And I was thinking I should make it rain in here. And all of a sudden, water started coming out of the concrete floor, and at that point, I thought, ‘I can do stuff.’”

According to Don, he now realized he could control the rain, at will. A skeptical guard challenged him to make it rain in Warden Dave Keenhold’s office. Warden Keenhold recalled:

“I was sitting at the desk, writing a report. I was all by myself in the administration area. Nobody else was around. It was approximately 8:00 in the evening. At the time, I didn’t feel anything, but my shirt was drooping down.”

An officer entered and told Warden Keenhold to look at his shirt:

“And right about the center of my sternum, about four inches long, two inches wide, I was just saturated with water. I was startled. I was scared. The officer was frightened at that particular time, and I just didn’t have an explanation why it happened.”

The Warden called in the Rev. William Blackburn:

“All of a sudden, I received this frantic call from a sergeant in the jail. And he said, ‘Can you come over? We need you. We need your help.’ So he brought this very meek and mild-mannered young man into the room. And he was asking for my help.”

Don told the Reverend that he could make it rain and that crosses placed on his body burned. According to the Reverend Blackburn, he told Don to admit that he was just making things up, then:

“All of a sudden his demeanor changed and this smell came into the room. Nurses and doctors, medical people, say when you walk into a room where someone is dying with a cancer or something, usually there’s a smell. You can tell when you walk in the room. I smelled a smell like that multiplied five times at least. Evil, foreboding. He raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together. And all of a sudden, it started to rain. It was like the devil’s rain. It was a mist. I was in the presence of evil. I opened up the Bible and started to read to him. But the pages never got wet. So help me, it was a frightening thing. 
I think I was praying more for me than him. I prayed, and it was only a brief period, and the rain stopped.”

Rev. Blackburn said he noticed a sudden change in Don as well:

“He subsided and you could feel a peace. He said thank you. He got tears in his eyes. We hugged and prayed together. He was possessed. There was no doubt in my mind. There’s no way a human could do what he did in that room. There’s no way that he did anything, but what he did was spiritual, and it wasn’t of God. Guaranteed, it was not of God.”

Don Decker said that he feels like the bizarre occurrences won’t happen again:

“Well it’s over. It hasn’t happened again. Basically, I’m just hoping that it never will, and I just, you know, go day by day. And as for my grandfather, I think what had happened was his doing. Because he abused me when I was young, he got a chance to abuse me again.”

Chip Decker, no relation to Don, and Peter Jordan are the main paranormal researchers on this case. Chip was impressed with the eye-witness accounts:

“I think what makes this case very unique is that all of the witnesses are so credible. We’re dealing with very good, well-seasoned police officers that were obviously rather frightened and shaken by this, but also had the powers of observation.”

Peter Jordan:

“The Donald Decker case is by far the singularly most fascinating and important case I have ever personally been involved in. That does not mean I believe that it necessarily is proof positive to me of demonic infestation. But it is the case, in my own personal experience up to this point, that comes the closest to that hypothesis.”

In all, nine eyewitnesses, plus Don himself, were willing to go on record saying they saw, heard, and felt phenomena apparently not of this world. And they continue to believe Don was possessed by the devil. They have found no other explanation for the bizarre events.

Don Baker Rain Man http://www.unsolved-mystery.com/1039/

Corriher Lipe Middle School in Landis North Carolina

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Corriher Lipe Middle School In the 1940’s, Larry the janitor was in the boiler room of the school he was cleaning when suddenly the boiler blows up and killing him.

69 years later, you can hear door slams and things moved. One teacher who worked late at night cutting paper in the workroom. When she heard someone in the hall, she looked out and no one was there, again she heard it. She checks out the whole school and no one was there. Not too far from the workroom, she felt a cold brush passed by her, but the temperature in the building was in the 70’s. She went back to the workroom and the trashcan was gone.

When teachers would work late, small children could be heard, but not seen and you can hear an old man voice moaning and roaming in the corridor of the school.

From personal experience, Jessica Huff, a teacher and her daughter were designing a bulletin in the classroom. They were alone together, when they heard footsteps outside their classroom. Not knowing whom it was, her daughter went out to investigate who it was. Moments passed and her daughter did not come back. She was scared and wanted to know what happened to her. It was a big school.

She stepped out the door and saw her daughter’s arm up in the air. Like holding on to something and she was talking to someone. Jessica called her daughter back and asked what she was doing. Her daughter explained: she was just walking and talking with the nice old man. Possibility the Janitor?

Another incident happened, One teacher had some students working on a project one night and when it was time to leave. The teacher asks the students to inspect the building and to make sure no was there. When they came back from inspection, they were frightened. They heard running footsteps that wasn’t theirs and voices of children in the stairs.

Ghosts have been reporting as being seen and heard across the Gym. Doors opening and closing with no there.  A hazy figure of young girl wandering in the hallways. A gust of heavy, damp—cold air rushing through the 2nd floor. Voices of children after hours. The figure of the custodian was seen in the boiler room where he was killed. He has been seen roaming the hallways watching the children at the school.

This is a TRUE STORY

Is your school haunted?

A ghost Audition for the X-Factor

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What could scare a Simon Cowell? A ghost. The place they were staying at was The Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas,Texas for their audition for the X-factor, a new reality talent show coming soon on FOX.  Who ever book him to this place did not know this place was haunted. But this place is absolutely beautiful and luxury rooms and it was built in 1923, the year should have given the PR a clue.

Designed by architect F.J. Woerner in the Beaux Arts style and predominantly built by local contractors, the 11-story concrete fireproof structure adorned with stone, terra cotta, and brick marked the beginning of modern, luxury high rise living in Dallas. At the time, it was the tallest hotel west of the Mississippi offering “fine” views of the city from its prominent suburban address inOak Lawn–“out of the turmoil and dirt of the city.”

Guests socialized in the elegant lobby, women’s sun parlor, and men’s smoking lounge on the first floor. The eleventh floor was a magnificent ballroom/solarium for special functions and a dining room serving the finest continental cuisine overlooking the city. Building amenities included a children’s gymnasium, beauty shop and barbershop, a grocery store in the basement, and The Stoneleigh Court’s own refrigerating plant, radio station, and 40-car parking garage.

Highlighting The Stoneleigh’s long list of notable guests have been such luminaries as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lauren Bacall, Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, The Metropolitan Opera Company, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Darrell Royal, Paul Simon, LeAnn Rimes, and Oliver Stone. The Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa is also member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Historic Hotels of America”.

And I think the celebrities who stayed there have their share of ghost stories too. Simon Cowell was the first to notice when he entered the building, and he was about to be checked into his room. He felt someone was watching him, a presence in the room, like the owner of the place was staring at him and trying to find out who was Simon Cowell and what he was doing in the room and his hotel. Simon Cowell had a weird feeling about this, and his co-worker thought he was a diva and wanted to change hotels. So they did, they change hotels.

This old creepy hotel had renovations done to make it exquisite and beautiful with a lot of features included. It sure is a one stop place one can do anything without leaving the place.

Traveling with Ghost and the Haunted Hotels

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Summer is here and we just want to take a quiet summer vacation at a luxury hotel and deluge ourselves to a magnificent view out of the window and have great service and tip the bell hop with a five dollar bill.

When we sleep in the room, there’s a thumping noise. We would think it’s the neighbor having sex in the next room, but we when bang on the wall to keep them quiet. The noise will stop immediately after the first bang  and dead silence for a few minutes, then one loud thump would have appeared, and it would be strange. We jump and assume something fell down and go back to sleep.

As soon as we fall asleep in the room children be running in the hall way laughing and giggling as they were running away from their parents. Footsteps would follow and it is 2:15 a.m.. Why would children would be up by this hour?

In the morning, when we get ready to go for a meeting, we leave the TV on to get the latest news and weather. We go to the bathroom to take a bath as soon as we turned on the water. We hear the TV changing channels, but we disregard this and proceed with the bath. As soon as we finish the bath and dry our hair and come out of the bathroom. The suitcase that was on the ground was now on the bed with your clothes all over the place and the bed was made. A neat freak ghost made your bed and threw your clothes out, now that’s weird.

We go down to the front desk and tell our story what happened last night. The front desk said there’s was no one on either side of the room would make any thumping noise. It was empty. We mention the children, still the front desk person said no family have checked in overnight. Even though front desk worked on shift, and they keep reports of complaint records. And every complaint contained noises and children running in the hall way and foot steps. What we have witnessed is a haunted hotel.

Here are some haunted hotels when we traveled.

The Spooky Jersey Shore

Cape May is a picturesque beach town on the JerseyShore. But inside many of the town’s stately Victorian homes, are restless spirits looking for peace. The Peter Shields Inn, a boutique inn and upscale restaurant, is one of these haunted spots. Visitors have said they’ve felt the overwhelming presence of a number of ghostly spirits, including the real-estate developer Peter Shields and his teenage son who is said to roam the inn’s basement.

 

 

Supernatural Southwest

if the price tags in Santa Fe’s galleries aren’t scary enough for you, book a stay at “The City Different’s” haunted adobe fortress, Hotel La Fonda. The Santa Fe Trail’s storied end-of-the-line hitchin’ and sleepin’ post began its 200-year-plus downtown tenancy as the rowdy Exchange Hotel. Gunfights frequently erupted inside, while out back, convicted killers swung from the gallows. Today, the spirits of the Old West are said to inhabit La Fonda’s lobby and bar.

The current building dates to the 1920s, but its paranormal roots run deep. In the 1850s, a businessman lost his fortune in the hotel’s gambling hall. Penniless and suicidal, he jumped to his death down a deep well, a hole currently covered by the hotel’s colorful La Pazuela Restaurant. Today, while your guacamole is prepared tableside, keep an eye out for the businessman’s ghost, sometimes seen in the center of the dining room, leaping and disappearing into thin air.

Old School Hollywood Haunts

While Marilyn Monroe impersonators pose for tourists’ snapshots outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood, the film icon’s ghost is said to reside across the street at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a 12-story Hollywood landmark opened in 1927. Marilyn reputedly haunts the hotel’s poolside, uber-exclusive nightclub, Tropicana. Unless you’re a hotel guest or minor celeb, you won’t get past the velvet rope. But there’s hope for ghost hunters who prefer blondes. Near the lobby’s mezzanine-level gift shop,Monroe’s voluptuous reflection has appeared in a full-length mirror relocated from her favorite suite.

Still, Monroe’s isn’t the only restless spirit said to be permanently checked in to the hotel. Guests may also encounter the tortured soul of actor Montgomery Clift; many have claimed to hear his trombone playing in the ninth floor hallways. Fans should request Clift’s preferred digs, room 928.

Room rates at the Roosevelt have skyrocketed in recent years, and it’s certain you’ll need a movie star’s bank account to afford a romp in the hotel’s top-floor Gable-Lombard Suite, where overnighters report strong psychic and sexual energy.

One thing we can do is stay away from vintage old hotels and bed & breakfast and stay at a Holiday Inn. Sometime franchise hotel and motel may have some haunting too, but all we can do is ask.